Monday, 11 January 2010

I thought it was time for a major revamp of my site. I basically started from scratch. I kept the elements I liked, but I gave it a whole new look. I made a nice background of a Shinjuku photo I shot to give this blog a real Tokyo feel. I added a bit of transparency in the text areas. I'm not that great with website design, but I'm real pleased with how it turned out.

Do you like it? Let me know. If there are any broken links I'd like to go back and fix them too. All part of a good start to this year I hope.

Two years ago I wrote my New Year's resolution was to learn more Japanese and to really do something with my guitar playing.

While I don't think I totally disregard following through on this, I really have been taking only baby steps towards either of these. If it was guitar BUYING, then I could say I really excelled doing that, didn't I? *nervous laugh* I picked up a FREE guitar case yesterday for my acoustic. I hope that redeems me a little from my excessive spending.

This year I sense great change. I need to. I need to reassess where I am now, and where I want to be in the future.

Tonight there was a "situation" that made me question exactly what I'm talking about. There was a meaningless argument, I walked out by myself to get us a pizza. A random girl smiled and said hello. I got back to a locked door and tears. I don't need that. I'm not going to say sorry. No one ever said sorry to me. No regrets? I try, but it's hard kicking against the pricks.

Peter, everything's ok. Just the relationship BS. Avatar, thanks for your comments. I see what you mean about the transparency issue. I made it as dark as possible, experimenting with different colors and this worked best. I didn't want to make it solid as I wanted to keep the continuity of the picture. Why did you give yourself a nickname from a movie? Lol

About Me

For some reason I have decided to leave my fine, if a little ordinary well paying job and family home where I don't pay rent and move to a country where I won't be able to read and barely speak the language. I have been to Tokyo before for a very short time. I was lost, confused and virtually on another planet. Why am I doing this? Because I HAVE to. I need to get out of the comfort zone I am in and really begin to live my life, start again and hopefully be happier overall. When I am sober I am thinking, "What the hell are you thinking?!?" but when I'm drunk I'm thinking "WOO HOOO!". So maybe if I'm drunk all the time I will accept this better.